Two Baldwin County men charged with first-degree rape

James Randall Lindsey, 41, of Stockton is charged with first-degree rape in connection to an incident that took place Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2011, in Bay Minette. (Courtesy Baldwin County Corrections Center)

BAY MINETTE, Alabama -- Two men have been arrested and charged with first-degree rape, following an early morning incident where a Bay Minette woman claims she was attacked.

James Randall Lindsey, 41, of Stockton, and Ryan O’Neal Robinson, 22, of Bay Minette were arrested following the Thursday report, said Captain Clarence Crook with the Bay Minette Police Department.

Crook said the woman stopped by Roosters, a bar on U.S. 31 South in Bay Minette, where she struck up a conversation with the two suspects. Later on, all three left the bar and drove off in her vehicle.

"They kind of got to talking with her and ended up in her car, one actually ended up driving her car," Crook said. "One of them started attacking her in the backseat and the other one pulled on the side of the road up here (at gas station) and they raped her."

Ryan O'Neal Robinson, 22 of Bay Minette faces a first-degree rape charge in connection with an incident that took place Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2011, in Bay Minette. (Courtesy Baldwin County Corrections Center)

After the alleged attack, Crook said the two men walked back to the bar and left the victim in her car in the gas station parking lot on Ala. 59.

"She drove herself home and told her friend and that’s when they decided that she might need to go to the hospital," Crook said.

"They were both interviewed and one of them confessed to it, the other one didn’t give a statement," Crook said.

Lindsey and Robinson each remain in the Baldwin County Corrections Center. Bail is set at $25,000 for Robinson, and $30,000 for Lindsey, who is also charged with second-degree theft of property for stealing the victim’s cell phone and debit card, according to Crook.